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fourspacetabs··on ICE Collected Nearly 1M People's DNA Last Year–Including Young Children
> foreign CRIMINALS

Subheadline of the article:

> Now hundreds of thousands of people never convicted of a crime are in an FBI criminal database forever.

7th paragraph of the article:

> The vast majority of people in ICE custody have no criminal conviction, and residing in the US undocumented is typically a civil, not criminal, offense.

fourspacetabs··on How to build a circular LCD clock
> I also tried with a Raspberry Pi Zero 2, but 512 MB of RAM were too little to run a modern browser, sadly.

I found that the surf browser was efficient enough to run fine on my Raspberry Pi Zero W. YMMV with animations and such, but it's much better than any chromium alternative in my experience.

fourspacetabs··on California to begin ticketing driverless cars that violate traffic laws
Not sure I agree. The clear boundary here to me is who owns and is operating the vehicle. Waymo both owns and operates their vehicles, it’s a taxi service, you wouldn’t say a Waymo rider is operating a vehicle and therefore deserves the ticket. Right now, no one can independently own and operate an AV the way Waymo or Tesla does.

When that happens someday, then the ticket would go to the owner/operator of the vehicle - whoever bought the car. If you get a ticket due to something dumb your personally owned Waymo did, wouldn’t you pursue that case against Waymo separately, the same way you’d pursue Hyundai for selling you a car whose engine blew up after 50k miles?

fourspacetabs··on California to begin ticketing driverless cars that violate traffic laws
As a Waymo (and other driverless car) supporter, this seems like an obviously good thing, right? I’m a little surprised this wasn’t possible before given the amount of regulatory scrutiny (correctly) applied to these companies.

Archive link in case of random paywalling like I got: https://archive.ph/xHMDO

fourspacetabs··on The More Young People Use AI, the More They Hate It
https://archive.ph/F3T8k